#bolshy

Produced by Stuart Price, the album 'Electric' was created with the intention of being a dance album (at least partially motivated by a fan comment, saying PSB should be “more banging and lasers”)

As the second track on the album, Bolshy is an interesting play on the antithetical ideas that love can often (unhealthily?) manifest as wanting to 'own' someone, yet a significant 'bolshy' (ie. Bolshevist) principle is that private property should be abolished.

“I don't believe you don't know you can own me.”

(Although, in view of this line and considering Neil's long-standing interest in Russian history, perhaps it's hinting that, in practice, the ideas aren't as mutually exclusive as they should be. Consciously or not, it's an apt analogy for the often hypocritical and undemocratic nature of Bolshevism.)